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Fauci Agrees With Trump

Donald Trump, Oct. 21, 2020: “We’re learning to live with it. We have no choice.”
Anthony Fauci, Nov. 28, 2021: “We’re going to have to start living with COVID.”

How many times did former President Donald Trump say something that was dismissed as reckless, heartless, stupid, or flat-out wrong only to find out later that he was right? Whatever the number is, add one more.

Over the weekend, Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, admitted that “we’re going to have to start living with COVID. I believe that’s the case because I don’t think we’re going to eradicate it.”

So, Fauci is finally admitting that trying to force everyone to be vaccinated won’t “end this.” Nor will whatever other punitive measures the “public health community” dictates. There is no “ending this” and we are going to have to learn to live with it.

Which, as it turns out, is exactly what Trump said more than a year ago.

During the final presidential debate on Oct. 21, 2020, Biden was berating Trump for saying that COVID would be over soon.

Trump’s response was: “I didn’t say over soon. I say we’re learning to live with it. We have no choice.”

https://issuesinsights.com/2021/11/29/fauci-is-now-copying-trump-on-covid/

Oddly:

Florida, the most open and free state in the nation – that does not have any COVID mandates in place, also has the lowest infection rate in the country.

 

Notes From The Past.

The elders of the Wahpeton Dakota Nation had long prophesized that the return of the plains bison to their ancestral lands would portend a welcome turn of events for Canada’s First Nation peoples. They may not have known, however, that it would take just eight months for this prediction to come true.

In December 2019, officials at Wanuskewin Heritage Park in the province of Saskatchewan reintroduced bison to the region more than a century after the animals were hunted to near extinction. The following August, the herd’s hooves uncovered four petroglyphs, or rock carvings, and an accompanying tool used to create the ancient artworks.

Archaeologist Ernie Walker and bison manager Craig Thoms made the find last summer while visiting the park. They were standing near a wallow, or a vegetation-free spot where the bison give themselves dust baths, when Walker noticed a grooved rock protruding from the ground. Assuming the cut was from tool damage, he brushed away the dirt, only to expose another groove and then another. “They were all parallel, all symmetrical,” he says. “It was at that point I realized this [was] actually what is known as a petroglyph. This was intentionally carved.”

The 550-pound boulder turned out to be a ribstone, so called because it’s engraved with motifs that represent bison’s ribs. Researchers found three more carvings over the ensuing weeks: a larger stone with a grid pattern, a small specimen with pits and grooves, and a 1,200-pound boulder covered in lines. Then, most surprisingly of all, the stone knife used to carve the petroglyphs resurfaced.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bison-in-canada-discover-ancient-petroglyphs-fulfilling-an-indigenous-prophecy-180979119/?fbclid=IwAR0QYRxCapUFIGRo8BRc0U3ApQnqydlibA6IbRL_yuQXCZFlE0B1iSY52UE&

What I find amazing about petroglyphs is that not only did the natives make the tools to produce such engravings - but apparently had the free time to do so. Obviously, such endeavors were of great importance to them.

 

Stressed Koreans

The Green Lab, a cafe near Seoul's nature hotspot Seoul Forest, caters to people who want to book time slots to do nothing by providing a completely silent space, where no one is allowed to speak and cell phones must be turned to silent mode.

Critters, Again,

In Mexico, Communal farmers and butterfly guides are hoping for a rebound in the number of monarch butterflies — and tourists — at their wintering grounds in central Mexico after a bad year for both last year. They do seem to be rebounding this year, though. Good news for everyone!

Got a little turned around:

State wildlife troopers in Oregon were forced to escort a sea lion back towards the sea after it was sighted by residents in Lincoln City.

The sea lion, according to authorities, was seen wondering towards US Highway 101 on Friday evening when it was reported to Lincoln City Police Department.

The force approached Oregon State Police (OSP) for assistance, with an OSP wildlife trooper responding to Lincoln City on Friday night.

OSP said that, following a discussion, it was decided to escort the sea lion back towards the Oregon coastline with plywood sheeting.

The sea lion was then herded two blocks towards Schooner Creek, which was the closest body of water, and which leads directly to the Pacific Ocean.

Calling all cars! https://news.yahoo.com/sea-lion-escorted-back-sea-160826810.html

 

 

Predicting The Future

https://digg.com/2021/wired-article-future-predictions-came-true

 

General Mills To Increase Prices

It's not just cereal, and prices will be hiked by around 20% starting mid-January.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/23/report-general-mills-will-raise-prices-up-to-20-percent-in-january/

General Mills is the latest company to announce its prices will rise next year, indicating that the issue of rising prices across the country is not going away soon. Procter & Gamble, Tysons, and Kraft Heinz have also announced price hikes, which will affect middle-class families. Earlier in November, the Department of Labor released data that showed nearly every price for breakfast items such as whole milk, eggs, bacon, juice, and coffee also rose sharply compared to last year. 

Might want to stock up now....

Some of the company’s rising prices will include brands such as Annie’s, Progresso, Yoplait, Fruit Roll-Ups, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Wheaties, Reese’s Puffs, and Trix, according to the report.

The letter from General Mills indicated that the rising cost of goods was in response to the higher cost of materials and labor.

 

 

Hedgehogs!

A hedgehog using one of the tunnels installed during the latest expansion of Kirtlington's #hedgehogstreet. An oak ramp with a special grippy surface connects the two gardens despite an 850mm difference! #WildlifeWednesday Thanks to

@PTES for the camera trap.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1169386060331278347

 

 

Some Things Never Change

Turkeys are too expensive says Elizabeth Warren. However, instead of focusing on WHY the cost of a turkey and all the trimmings has gone up, she wants to go after the turkey producers. Yup. Turkeys, potatoes, lettuce - you name it; they've all gone up in price at the grocery check-out. I doubt that she's ever set foot inside a grocery store. It's just easier to blame corporations. https://victorygirlsblog.com/elizabeth-warren-blames-turkeys-for-inflation-woes/

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday called on the Justice Department to open a broad investigation on the impact of price- fixing and consolidation in the poultry sector on consumers and farmers.

The former Democratic presidential candidate also urged the department’s Antitrust Division to review “with suspicion” any large mergers in the industry, after Cargill Inc and Continental Grain said in August they would buy chicken company Sanderson Farms (SAFM.O) for $4.53 billion.

Warren said in a letter that consumers are paying higher prices because of excessive consolidation, price-fixing and “plain-old corporate greed.”

 

Hope You're Having A Nice Thanksgiving!

First Thanksgiving

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes but the First Thanksgiving likely included wildfowl, corn, porridge and venison.

“Wildfowl was there. Corn, in grain form for bread or for porridge, was there. Venison was there,” says Kathleen Wall. “These are absolutes.”

Turkey was not the centerpiece of the meal, as it is today, explains Wall. Though it is possible the colonists and American Indians cooked wild turkey, she suspects that goose or duck was the wildfowl of choice. In her research, she has found that swan and passenger pigeons would have been available as well.

In any case, you'll find that passenger pigeons are unavailable for your menu.